Feride Akalan
Feride Şevval Akalan is a Turkish female basketball player. The tall national plays small forward.
Akalan was a member of Istanbul University and Çukurova Basketbol, which loaned out her to Mersin University. Currently, she plays in the Super League for the Ankara-based club Nesibe Aydın GSK.
She was part of the national U-16 team at the 2017 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival in Győr, Hungary that won the bronze medal.
In January 2022, she was admitted to the national team. She took part at the Basketball at the [2022 Mediterranean Games|2022 Mediterranean Games] in Oran, Algeria. She played at the EuroBasket Women 2023 qualification.